Judges Joe Escher's and Tim Landecker's second series is a mixed-bag land triple walk-up with a blind outside the marks. We arrived early morning to a cool 50 degrees with light wind out of the west. The handlers proceeded due north to a walk up with a rooster pheasant being thrown left landing at a tempting 37 yards in low cover. The left-hand flyer was a mallard shot angle back right with an area of the fall at about 100 yards from the line. The deepest mark thrown was the right-hand go bird at 128 yards thrown left into low cover in front of a row of young young pine trees in front of the woods.
The blind was to the left and just deep of the flyer station, 111 yards from the line. This test was not a wide open triple, but it was also not a tight test. On the way to the go bird, the dogs did have to get through the scent of the short walk up bird and possibly scent from the flyer.
The line to the blind did have a dirt road the dogs needed to angle that pushed dogs to the right towards the flyer station, but most handlers we watched were able to keep the dogs left of the flyer station to pick up the bird.
Flight C – Test 2 – Judge's Test Scenario
Flight C – Test 2 – Test Dog
